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BISHOP FALLON COMMUNITY

AN OBLATE FORMATION COMMUNITY

IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK

UPDATED 01/10/06

The Director of the pre-novitiate program, Fr. Ron LaFramboise, OMI, recently returned to the United States after many years as a missionary in Japan and as Director of Information Services at the Oblate General House in Rome.

Fr. Jim Erving, OMI, serves as the Associate Director and as Associate Pastor of Holy Angels Parish.  He is from Baltimore.  Prior to this assignment, he was Vocation Director.

Ray Cook is in his second year of Oblate formation.  He comes to us from West Haven, CT.

Feliciano López, fifth year pre-novice, comes to us from the Mexican state of Oaxaca.  He spent three years in the pre-novitiate in Tijuana.  He will spend this year perfecting his English.